What were we saying all along? That people are confusing personality with “gender” with sex.

Meet…fluffgender.

https://twitter.com/Serena_Partrick/status/1865410148614685070 Profound misunderstanding of what “cake” is, too. The best cakes are not soft and fluffy at all, but dense and rich (cue the “like my cousin Tim” jokes). Soft fluffy cakes that taste of sugar and not much else are not so much cake as crap.

Anyway. The hell with personality. Focus on morality, dedication, generosity, altruism, effort. Stop trying to be a cartoon character and do something with your life.… Read the rest

The “Feminist” Library has (of course) a whole long statement on twanzfobeea.

As an organisation founded 46-years ago, the Feminist Library has evolved through different periods in the history and political landscape of feminism, as well as through different members contributing to the collective. No individual member of the collective represents the group’s views as a whole and we feel it important to note that we come from different political histories as well as cultural and class backgrounds. 

Yadda yadda blah blah BUT there is one subject on which nobody gets to be “different.”

Over the past year, we have conducted a number [of] internal “Organisational Culture” meetings amongst members of the core collective intended to address a wide

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There’s a thing called The Feminist Library in Peckham, London. It tells us it has a long history and has [cough] changed over the years.

The Feminist Library was founded since 1975, and we have existed in many different forms since then. This is who we are today:

That’s not a good sign. People running a library should be more literate than that. The point appears to be that the library was founded way the hell back in 1975 when the barbarians were unaware of the spiritual glory of trans ideology, and now the library is Uplifted and Perfected.

So you know already what their “principles” are going to be.

• We are intersectional Feminists.
• We are trans-inclusive and transfeminist.
  • Read

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It’s not that publishers are boycotting Jews, it’s just that they aren’t publishing books by Jews.

Such is the experience of so many Jewish people in British publishing today. In interviews with The Telegraph, authors, agents, scouts and publishers spoke of the growing sense of discomfort and [ostracism] they have experienced in their industry since the October 7 attacks. Many say a quiet but pervasive anti-Semitism – a sense of “Jews don’t count”, as one author put it – has begun to creep in.

Mind you, that’s generally the case with all kinds of rejections, failures, not happenings. Is it because the book or article or movie or play is not good enough or is it because … Read the rest

Lawsuit.

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the nation’s leading practitioner of transgender youth medicine, faces a medical-negligence lawsuit for the irreversible treatments she administered to a former patient, who has since detransitioned.

It’s interesting that even the National Review endorses trans ideology by using trans ideology language. What exactly is “transgender youth medicine”? In what sense is it “medicine”? Why is TNR calling it medicine in the same breath as “medical-negligence lawsuit” and “irreversible treatments”? Also whaddya mean “treatments”?

It’s nuts. How can we even talk about this if the language is so corrupted that even critics get it wrong? Shocker: maybe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones aren’t always “treatment” at all.

Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, alleges Olson-Kennedy, Children’s Hospital Los

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It would be quicker to list what’s not “transphobia.”

The Telegraph:

LNER spent £58,000 repainting one of its trains with a rainbow-themed Pride livery, it has emerged.

The cost of the Pride rebranding was revealed after a passenger sent a freedom of information (FoI) request asking the government-owned train company for more information about it.

58 THOUSAND quid. Just think of all the useful things one could do with that kind of money.

But instead of answering Carol Fossick’s other detailed questions, a senior LNER manager wrote back and labelled her “transphobic” after trawling through her social media posts.

I’m not a Mormon. I think the content of Mormonism is silly. Is that phobic?

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on It’s A or B or both or neither.

These people really don’t know what a definition is, do they?

I’m not so sure. There’s a difference between not knowing what a definition is, and not having one, or not daring to offer one for fear of getting it wrong. It’s a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” kind of ecumenicalism, wherein everybody under the infinitely elastic “trans umbrella” refuses to examine anyone else’s credentials for being a member. As soon as any kind of binding, coherent definition is offered up, somebody will be “excluded” or excommunicated, because so many of the posited attributes of the myriad gender possibilities are completely contradictory. By … Read the rest

Hoooooooooo-boy.

Robin Ince, someone who says some women are men, forgets that he pretends to believe this and asks what it would be like if men could get pregnant. Sara Pascoe corrects him to say some men can. Nobody bothers to explain what she means. This is from a BBC radio science show pic.twitter.com/eBOMLqh6rX

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) December 6, 2024

Sarah Pascoe really does really “correct him” to say that. She does it at high speed, aka a gabble, so you have to listen closely to catch it.

Ince: …how much further d’you think we’d be with understanding embryology if it was [sic] men that gave birth?

Pascoe: [cozy chuckle] Um well first [??] really boring [??] trans men can … Read the rest

I’d say this one should have stayed in the “too pretty to demolish” category.

BREAKING NEWS // Angela Rayner has granted permission for M&S to demolish their Oxford Street flagship store, overturning a decision by the previous Secretary of State.

The chance to set a vision for a more sustainable and creative Britain that reuses its built-heritage has been… pic.twitter.com/iYYhjYuG8E

— C20 Society (@C20Society) December 5, 2024

Then again, Oxford Street itself is a horrible place, best avoided, so I suppose I should keep my opinion to myself. Won’t, but should.… Read the rest

More fun with JKR versus a bowl of oatmeal Sally Hines.

'Gender identity refers to each person’s internal sense of being male, female, a combination of the two, or neither; it is a core part of who people know themselves to be.'

However, this core of what we know ourselves to be may change, possibly several times in a single…

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 3, 2024

‘Gender identity refers to each person’s internal sense of being male, female, a combination of the two, or neither; it is a core part of who people know themselves to be.’

However, this core of what we know ourselves to be may change, possibly several times in a single afternoon:

‘Genderfluid people experience

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Musk is busy urging slashing funds for worker safety, consumer safety, and silly Marxist nonsense like that.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk and former Republican presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy head to Capitol Hill on Thursday to present their ideas for President-elect Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE.

The new group is expected to recommend drastic cuts to the federal workforce and to slash regulation. To achieve those goals, though, the group will have to work through Congress.

Regulation is bad, you see. Mustn’t regulate capitalism. Profit is the only goal.

In social media posts, podcasts, op-eds, books and speeches, Musk and Ramaswamy have sketched out what they have in mind: a 75% reduction in the

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Reclaim the night for women…

…oh and also of course for men who pretend to be women.

The perfect speaker for Reclaim the Night is a man, right? pic.twitter.com/x7jJKumW8t

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) December 5, 2024

He’s a man.

Alexa Moore is a director of Transgender NI, a newly formed not-for-profit organisation focusing on supporting and campaigning for the human and civil rights of trans people in Northern Ireland.

Which is not what Take Back the Night is about, but never mind that, forget women, we have to talk about men with curly blonde hair instead.… Read the rest

They want to get rid of NOAA and the National Weather Service. Good plan; who the hell needs weather forecasts?

Partisan jostling aside, what does Project 2025 say about NOAA and the National Weather Service?

A [Rep Jared] Moskowitz spokesperson, Keith Nagy, said “while Project 2025 does not call for the complete dismantling of the NOAA, it intends to undermine the agency’s independence from the executive branch and eliminate many of its internal departments. Any threats toward the NOAA or NWS jeopardizes life-saving information about hurricanes, heat waves, and other extreme weather events.”

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Project 2025 includes about four pages on NOAA and the National Weather Service. That part was written by Thomas F. Gilman, who was an

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Sigh.

I’m astonished at the profound ignorance on display at the SCOTUS today. Sotomajor and Jackson- you think giving T to a boy is the same as giving it to a girl? You believe a girl can go through “typical male puberty”? I am dumbfounded.

— Miriam Grossman MD (@Miriam_Grossman) December 4, 2024

And strangio — “blockers do not harm”, are you kidding me? The reason Sweden rejected them is because “Leo” developed spinal fractures from blocker-induced osteoporosis. Don’t you know ANYTHING?

— Miriam Grossman MD (@Miriam_Grossman) December 4, 2024

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The Nation should be embarrassed that it published this.

Trans Medicine’s “Merchants of Doubt”

Before we read any further, what is “trans medicine”? Fake medicine? Real medicine that trans people take? Reckless experimental attempts to change people’s sex?

Someone called Joanna Wuest wrote the article. He/she looks male to my jaundiced eye, but not so unmistakably male that I can claim to be sure she/he is male. Google turned up a lot of content but not a single bit of information on what sex he/she is.

So, what does she/he tell us?

Gender-affirming care is based on dangerously uncertain science. So say lawmakers in the 26 states that have banned medical interventions for minors ranging from puberty-suppressing and hormonal replacement

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Affirming 4 kidz.

How do otherwise reasonable adults convince themselves that maiming teenagers is a good idea?

With many individuals, I’d be tempted to ascribe it to a tendency to outsource moral judgement, in this case deferring to some authority who has deemed trans “rights” to be a “progressive” cause. Once somebody higher up the food chain has blessed it, they don’t have think about it any more themselves; they can climb aboard the bandwagon with a clear conscience and an empty head. Once the bandwagon starts rolling faster and farther, passing ethical and prudential boundaries one might have baulked at, it becomes harder to get off without seriously lacerating … Read the rest

Oh that’s outreach, is it? Not a stone-cold insult but outreach? Doesn’t reach me, I must say.

The NHS Gender Outreach Worker at University of Central Lancashire,

27 November 2024. pic.twitter.com/xGGWQg5gec

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) December 4, 2024

Do they have Race Outreach Workers?

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The wording. You always have to look closely at the wording. Like this NPR headline:

Supreme Court hears challenge to law banning gender-affirming care for trans kids

Calling it “gender-affirming care” is glaringly tendentious. Is it really care to remove healthy breasts or invert healthy penises in order to “affirm” a minor’s belief that she/he is the other sex? Is affirming children’s fantasies with drastic medical interventions really care? Is NPR really so confident that “yes” is the right answer to both questions that it doesn’t worry at all about encouraging teenagers to wreck their bodies?

If so, why? How? How do otherwise reasonable adults convince themselves that maiming teenagers is a good idea?

Front and center at the Supreme

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Well well well, look what won a Political Cartoon of the Year award.

https://twitter.com/GrizeldaG/status/1864269507952325085… Read the rest

What oh what is a woman? It’s such a deep question. Philosophers (the male ones) have been puzzling over it for years, possibly as many as ten. Is it someone who talks in a high squeaky voice? Is it someone you [presumed guy] want to fuck? Is it someone who smells like fish?

It’s almost as difficult as who is a baseball.

You are choosing a very politically loaded version of “woman.”

What is a baseball? Legally, for a baseball to be used in a game, it has to be treated with mud from a certain river. The ones you buy at Walmart are not subjected to this. They are still baseballs functionally.

I…

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) December 1,

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